About this episode

Carl and Richard discuss the latest version of Avalonia with CEO Mike James and Matt Lacey, focusing on new features and improvements.

Avalonia continues to evolve! Carl and Richard talk to Avalonia CEO Mike James & Matt Lacey about the latest version of Avalonia, the open source UI framework for building cross-platform applications with .NET. Mike's conversation with the Google Flutter team has led to replacing the Skia rendering engine in Avalonia with the newer Impeller Rendering Engine that Flutter itself depends on. This opens the door to excellent smartphone implementations with Avalonia, alongside its usual desktop and embedded roles. With enterprise editions and the new Avalonia Accelerate, there's more to come from the team!

People in this episode

Host: Carl Franklin

Guests: Mike James, Matt Lacey

Topics covered

• Avalonia
• cross-platform applications
• UI framework
• open source
• rendering engine
• enterprise editions

Keywords

• Avalonia
• cross-platform
• UI framework
• Impeller
• Skia
• Flutter
• open source
• enterprise

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Avalonia, Google, Flutter

Products: Skia, Impeller Rendering Engine, Avalonia Accelerate

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